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Using Dynamic Ingest with S3

In this topic, you will learn how to ingest videos from your Amazon S3 account using the Dynamic Ingest API.

Overview

Dynamic Ingest can pull videos from your Amazon S3 bucket. If your S3 content is accessible to Everyone, there is nothing you need to do. If your content is protected, however, you will need to add a bucket policy allowing Dynamic Ingest to access your videos. This document explains how to do that.

Dynamic Ingest now supports V4 AWS Regions for image and VTT files when using V4 Signatures. If the AWS region only accepts V4 signatures, then you must use a V4 signature.

Setting the S3 Policy

To set up your policy to allow Dynamic Ingest to access your videos, go to the AWS Console. Select your bucket, then select the "Permissions" tab, then click the "Bucket Policy" button. On the last row click Add bucket policy. Below is our recommended policy: